Oklahoma lawmakers want state-sponsored terrorist group?

Today is the 15th anniversary of the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building by right-wing terrorists. But Tea Party leaders and Republican legislators in Oklahoma are choosing this time to reopen these old wounds.

The lawmakers say they plan to introduce a bill to create a right-wing state-sponsored "militia" all because they're mad that they didn't get their way in the presidential election.

This "militia" sounds to me like a terrorist group. For the past 15 years, I've seen how this goes: Right-wingers get angry because the election didn't go their way, so they stockpile weapons, intimidate people, and commit terrorist acts. Repeat and rinse. If they don't want me to suspect that the Oklahoma effort is state-sponsored terrorism, then maybe they shouldn't have committed terrorism before.

Nobody is more suspicious of abuse of federal power than this blog. The Bush era reinforced this feeling as never before. And nobody is more willing to stand up and fight for constitutional liberty than this blog.

But there's a big difference between defending your basic constitutional freedom and blowing up stuff just because your guy lost the election.

Where were they when the Bush regime kept abusing federal power? Siccing the DEA on glaucoma patients in states where medical marijuana is legal was one of the worst misuses of federal power, yet I've never seen the Tea Parties speak out against this abuse. Bush's "preemption" of state laws was another abuse, yet I've never seen the Lipton Losers oppose this either.